The Sound of Silence

[the_rant_girl]

Title: The Sound of Silence
Characters: Dean, Sam, John
Rating: PG (for angst)
Word Count: 100
Summary: After Mary died speaking didn't seem that important, until it was. But it wasn't the last time Dean lost his voice.

A/N: Unoriginal title is unoriginal. I am posting this now and only here because even although it was inspired by the spn_bigpretzel DEW

Comments

[milly_gal]

Oh, this is super creepy, and I love a backstory like this. Chills honey, chills.

[the_rant_girl]

Thank you, my lovely, I was trying to think of what kind of imaginary friend Dean could have, my first thought was a little girl, which immediately became ghost!girl. Just a sweet little ghost girl who likes to befriend lonely children, and I had like a flash of a teary wee!Dean saying to John, "You killed my friend."

so like:

“What’s the matter, kiddo?”

"You killed my friend."

"Dean. She was a ghost. You can't be friends with a ghost, son. She would have hurt you, or someone else eventually. I had to put her to rest."

Tears running down Dean's cheeks, because Sally was a good ghost, and he knows she would never have hurt him. And he wants to yell it at his Dad, but he doesn't want John yelling at him. Dean drops his father’s gaze, he wasn’t going to look at him anymore.

"Go play with your brother."

Dean stamps his feet as he storms off.

heh and re: the backstory, Sammy is always the one Dean will come back for :) whether that be physically or emotionally ♥♥

[meus_venator]

O.o lovely addition. And it forced Dean to speak. I adore innocent, silent Dean. So much inside going on inside that little body. And this Dean innocently could see the grey areas, that everything was not good or evil. Canon has been mucked with so often, but there has to have been examples of ghosts who don't go darkside?

[the_rant_girl]

Thank you, so much!! And yes, this time the injustice of it pushed him, but well also his hurt and grief and how lonely the day felt when Sally wasn't there. And well this is before John teaches Dean how to shoot, before he gives Dean the responsibility of keeping Sammy alive and safe. Before he starts to be shaped into the perfect little soldier/hunter. I think Dean would have definitely have felt things intuitively, been able to see what John, and quite a lot of adults, can't

[meus_venator]

No, it's cool to read the episodes that did have good ghosts. I think it makes sense that there would be good ghosts. I mean why wouldn't there be. I like the theory of a ghost having unfinished business and once they accomplish that then they go away. I wish my memory was better for specific episodes. I've watched them all, but not so good about remembering the details.

[the_rant_girl]

I do not too bad at remembering details, well mostly, lol, I do struggle with remembering the exact episode/season something is in sometimes though, and that's where superwiki comes in handy lol

I like that theory too, and well I enjoyed Ghost Whisperer for the first couple of seasons, I think I missed the last 2 seasons, I dunno lol, I think I stopped before it went downhill lol haha

But yeah there has to be good spirits. Like when I'm watching The Walking Dead, I always feel like there should be at least one of them who is immune to the whole zombie business, lol but I don't think I'm gonna get to see that lol

[milly_gal]

Wow, now I wanna punch John! lol! Poor little Dean!

Also re Sammy - YES!

[the_rant_girl]

Well to be fair to John his mindset is everything evil between me and the thing that killed my wife must die, and evil things are evil things, and it makes me think of that line from Bloodlust:

What if we killed things that didn't deserve killing? You know? I mean, the way Dad raised us...

And Dean being friends with a ghost would freak him out, and he would be concerned for Dean's safety. But yeah it still doesn't make things any better for Dean. John should have hugged him, comforted him. And John would probably mentally kick himself for it after.

But he finds Dean, with Sammy sitting between his legs, one arm held tight around him as he reads to his baby brother.

[milly_gal]

That line really struck me in that episode, it runs on a loop in my head whenever I write a Monster Fic too. xx